Throughout April and May, this grand cultural programme will bring stirring artistic experiences to audiences nationwide, igniting a spirit of pride, solidarity, and remembrance.

Call it what you will — a gut instinct, a sixth sense, or even a "spidey sense" — but at some point, everyone has had a ...

So the tragic events of 100 years ... a World War I Army training camp. National Archives Stricken soldiers receive care in November 1918 in Mare Island. U.S. Navy Medicine During the autumn ...

Perfectly timed for the 600th anniversary of the Battle of Agincourt, the fourth volume of Jonathan Sumption’s epic narrative of the Hundred Years’ War takes the ... experienced during the ...

Two years into the war in Sudan, the country remains engulfed ... and remote explosives or landmines. The map below shows the geographical spread and intensity of conflict incidents across Sudan ...

On April 17, 1825, Charles X, brother to Louis XVIII and the new French king, performed a sudden about-face. Charles X issued a decree stating that France would recognize Haitian independence but only ...

In 2002, Haiti’s former president Jean-Bertrand Aristide argued that France should pay his country ... accompanied by a squadron of 14 brigs of war carrying more than 500 cannons.

S.M. Charles X, le bien-aimé, reconnaissant l’indépendance de St. Domingue,' 1825, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Cabinet des Estampes, CC BY-SA ...

France extracted a huge indemnity from Haiti, in exchange for recognition of its independence. This week marked the 200th ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Marlene L. Daut, Yale University (THE CONVERSATION) In 2002, Haiti’s former ...

Two years into a war that has left tens of thousands dead, Sudan's paramilitary force on announced its own government to rival the army-backed administration it is battling. The United Nations has ...

Fifty years ago, Lebanon descended into one of the darkest periods in its modern history: the civil war. The brutal 15-year conflict was marked by sectarian violence and shifting front lines.